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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1893
Page
5
A sprawling column reflects on political tension in Britain ruling Ireland and Siam, Italian French clashes, a Boston hero, pension reforms, and bank safety. It notes the Gladstone home rule bill’s fate, Sir John Tompson’s dissent, and medical advances in malaria typhoid diagnosis.
Abraham W. Smith, Maine native and Republican candidate for Kansas governor, is a former prisoner of war who rose from Cambria mills foreman to McPherson County farmer. He served five terms in the Kansas legislature, was speaker in 1887, led state agriculture boards, and was elected president of the National Farmers' Congress. He is described as a capable legislator and principled speaker with irreproachable character.
A Pall Mall Budget correspondent contrasts Boulogne fish market life with Parisian and Barcelona scenes. Women negotiate fish trade while men work the nets. a note on suffrage, then rapid shifts to an American artist’s uneasy Barcelona lodging experience describing a soapless room and wary service.
A collage of quips and comic vignettes from early newspapers. Jokes range from a bald man discovering hat keeping hair, to a messenger boasting slow delivery, to fishing tales and burglar wit. Short, punchy lines mimic a humor column across several publications.
The text discusses beliefs where a cat in a dying person’s room makes both vampire beings, and a bread lying on the ground must be kissed and carried to a hole to insert it. Stepping on or leaving bread behind is an unpardonable sin, said to doom the offender to the third hell with a horned ox trampling them.
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